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Region’s Biggest Maritime Surveillance Operation Acts to Stop Illegal Fishing

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FFA MEDIA RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Region’s biggest maritime surveillance operation acts to stop illegal fishing FFA REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS, HONIARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2011: Operation Kurukuru 2011, a coordinated maritime surveillance operation in which the countries of the Pacific region cooperated to detect, deter and eliminate activities such as Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing and other transnational crimes which may have connections with fishing such as smuggling and people ...

FFA MEDIA RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 Region’s biggest maritime surveillance operation acts to stop illegal fishing

 FFA REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS, HONIARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2011:

Operation Kurukuru 2011, a coordinated maritime surveillance operation in which the countries of the Pacific region cooperated to detect, deter and eliminate activities such as Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing and other transnational crimes which may have connections with fishing such as smuggling and people trafficking, was hosted by the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) during the period 7 to 14 November 2011.

 

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